At this time of year and all year long
- may we help each other with love
(not a great color scheme but you get the idea)
On our way to see one of the missions we passed a field with these Hay People
Down the hill there was a beautiful creek with fisher people
Japanese paper tea house
by Rod ~ December 7th, 2009. Filed under: Japan.
I am certainly not a fan of naked ladies all over the place. I think there is something in the difference between the very formal hair and makeup, the distinctive fabric designs and the nudity.
this is a really old blog that just came to my attention. The author discusses a method for writers (‘Writing Down the Bones’ by Natalie Goldberg) to free their creativity by journaling without editing - stream of conscious. Now an artist (painting blog of Nancy Reyner) has suggested it is applicable for painters.
Warming Up Your Inner Voice
"First get a pile of inexpensive painting surfaces that don't feel precious to you"
That is a hard stop for me. I wash plastic wrap. I am certain everything can be reused and feel it must be reused in the most effective manner. It is not enough to recycle the recipient must use the material. I am holding on to construction paper from my late twenties children and we know that construction paper is not archival in fact it is so ephemeral that it practically eats itself alive. But I have to find the right place to give it to!
"Make a commitment to acting out your very first thought. Now here is the key. Your first thought is the inner voice. Your second thought is the ‘parent’. We are so accustomed to paying attention to the second voice that the first is sometimes faint and barely there. This exercise will strengthen that first voice, sometimes called the ‘inner child’. I like using the phrase ‘first voice’ better or I feel like I am in therapy.”"
Hmmmmm ---- turning off or tuning down the parent is probably just what I need!
Nancy Eaton posted this on Flickr. Someone is willing to put paint on paper.
these models were inside the museum
these larger than life versions were on the front lawn - WOW
Saw these at the Barber Motorsports Museum near Birmingham, Alabama recently
Mach I
You can spend hours wandering through the amazing objects, graphics and assemblages put together by Keith LoBue. The question is can you take inspiration from the work of others, take your hands off the keyboard and do something. It is a difficult question. What is the point of making things even beautiful, intriguing objects? What is the point of studying and understanding a topic no matter how difficult if you do nothing with that knowledge?
Kierkegaard on the Couch
The author makes the point that having a healthy spirit does not necessarily mean happiness and certainly does not result from getting everything you want. It is difficult for me to grasp the distinction between having a negative world view; despairing of permanent improvement and being depressed. Maybe despair is not something to escape from but a depth or insight to understand and use to your advantage for the growth of your soul / spirit - resiliency.
"ancient distinction between psychological and spiritual disorders, between depression and despair"
I am in the profoundest sense an unhappy individuality, riveted from the beginning to one or another suffering bordering on madness, a suffering which must have its basis in a mis-relation between my mind and body, for (and this is the remarkable thing as well as my infinite encouragement) it has no relation to my spirit, which on the contrary, because of the tension between my mind and body, has gained an uncommon resiliency. . . . Kierkegaard
"The spirit is one thing, the psyche another: The blues one thing, despair another. . . . the issue of spiritual health looms up with regard to the way that we relate to our emotional lives. Again, for Kierkegaard, despair is not a feeling, but an attitude, a posture towards ourselves. . . . But the spiritual travails only begin when that chagrin consumes the awareness that we are something more than our emotions and projects."
Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong/Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.
Dancers at the Hippodrome, Toronto, April 1923
M. O. Hammond
Black and white negative
Reference Code: F 1075
Archives of Ontario, I0001063
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